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Division of Preservation and Access

Featured Projects: Preservation and Access

Collage of Early 20th Century Newspaper Front Pages

Featured Project

Turning the Page on the U.S. Newspaper Program (1982-2011)

In 1982 NEH created the United States Newspaper Program (USNP), a nearly 30-year cooperative national effort to locate and catalog all extant American newspapers.

Posted: August 15, 2012
The Panathenaic Stadium

Featured Project

The First Modern Olympics

At Chronicling America you can find first-hand journalistic reportage of the first modern Olympic Games from among its nearly 5 million digitized pages of U.S. historical newspapers. 

Posted: August 2, 2012
Paintings at the St. Johnsbury Atheaneum

Featured Project

The Gilded Frames of St. Johnsbury Athenaeum

From time to time, we will be featuring some of the unique institutions supported by our Preservation Assistance Grants program.

Posted: July 26, 2012
Medical Repository, v. 1 (1810), title page.

Featured Project

Medicine and the Humanities. Part III: Medical Heritage Library

Historian Charles Rosenberg once wrote that hospitals have “reproduced in microcosm the history of a larger society.”

Posted: June 28, 2012
Dr. Sabin administers oral vaccine.

Featured Project

Medicine and the Humanities. Part II: Henry R. Winkler Center's Albert B. Sabin Archives

Parts II features the University of Cincinnati’s archive of Dr. Albert Sabin, the scientist who developed the oral polio vaccine that helped eradicate the disease.

Posted: June 22, 2012
African American orderlies tending to white soldiers recovering from influenza.

Featured Project

Medicine and the Humanities. Part I: The Online Encyclopedia of the 1918-19 Influenza Epidemic

Historian Charles Rosenberg once wrote that hospitals have “reproduced in microcosm the history of a larger society.”

Posted: June 15, 2012
Watercolor portrait of an unknown woman. Date unknown.

Featured Project

Women's Worlds in Qajar Iran

“Exploring Communities of Muslim Women,” a forum sponsored by NEH, was presented on May 30th by the White House Office of Public Engagement.

Posted: June 8, 2012
Thomas Davis residence, Palm Springs, California, 1957.

Featured Project

Maynard Parker’s Southern California Suburbia

From the sun-drenched patio and outdoor barbeque, to the living rooms of some of Hollywood’s legendary celebrities, photographer Maynard Parker (1900-1976) captured Southern California.

Posted: May 22, 2012
Lewiston, Idaho’s Beuk Aie Temple

Featured Project

Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month

The Division of Preservation and Access celebrates Asian-Pacific Heritage Month by highlighting projects it has funded that emphasize the cultural contributions of the diverse peoples of Asia and the Pacific Islands. 

Posted: May 9, 2012
Front page from Ragtime Review

Featured Project

From Mozart to Ragtime

The Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals/Répertoire international de la presse musicale (RIPM) was established to provide access to 18th- through 20th-century periodical literature dealing with music.

Posted: May 9, 2012